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Motorola Solutions this week announced CirrusCentral Core, a P25 secondary-core offering that is hosted in the cloud and will be offered as a service to provide ASTRO 25 network operators with greater resiliency in the event that the primary core for an ASTRO 25 system is unavailable. Scott Mottonen, senior vice president of product for […]

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations This California fire chief is building a satellite system to detect wildfires as soon as they start Outage hits Oakland County, Mich., public-safety radio system due to old switch OSU researchers hope new tech will help in battle against wildfires Boston startup creates the Dronut, a drone to […]

Ericsson today announced an agreement to pay $1.1 billion cash to acquire Cradlepoint—known in the U.S. public-safety market for providing broadband connectivity solutions in vehicles—in a deal that is expected to close by the end of the year. Ericsson President and CEO Börje Ekholm described Cradlepoint as a leading provider of wireless-edge WAN enterprise solutions […]

Driverless vehicles will, ultimately, be able to download new ‘brains’ from the cloud and 5G connectivity will hold to key to that capability. That’s the view of Hemant Sikaria, co-founder and CEO of software specialist in remote vehicle data handling, Sibros. He sees this as being a vital capability if AVs are ever to match […]